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Could your liposuction ultimately save Alzheimer's patients? A clinical trial at the Toulouse University Hospital, on Alzheimer's disease, will use stem cells recycled after liposuction.

The fat removed during these cosmetic surgeries contains these "mother" cells from which other cell types develop. They offer many therapeutic perspectives.

These stem cells will be supplied by the Toulouse start-up Cell-Easy, which specializes in regenerative medicine, and which will recycle them before transmitting them to the hospital. 

Hélène Ménal, 20 Minutes journalist in Toulouse, looked into this essay which gives rise to hope.

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